Mike Wells is a mastering engineer. He opened Mike Wells Mastering fifteen years ago in a room at Hyde Street Studios in the San Francisco Tenderloin, where Cameron also worked later on. He now runs Mike Wells Mastering out of North Hollywood.

His credits include Green Day, Prince, Tommy Guerrero, Google, Apple, and many others. He served on the board for the Recording Academy, and also as President of the LA chapter of AES. Mike and Cameron talked about audio, music, and survival.

]]>775Episode 013 – Matt Kelley – Matt Kelley Audiohttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-013-matt-kelley-matt-kelley-audio/
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:26:34 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=772Matt Kelley is a legendary SF Bay Area audio engineer. His credits are crazy: Digital Underground, 2-Pac, Souls of Mischief, Dead Kennedys, Hieroglyphics, and many more… Matt is the sound of a huge part of San Francisco musical and cultural history. Cameron and Matt have known each other for many years working in SF. For […]

]]>772Episode 012 – Brian Wakefield – Death Recordshttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-012-brian-wakefield-death-records/
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:18:54 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=763Brian Wakefield plays in the bands Melted Toys, Emotional, Healing Potporri, and runs the cassette label Death Records which has an annual festival, Deathstock, in Sonoma county every June. Cameron met up with Brian at Death Records HQ in SF, where they talked about music, movies, growing up in San Jose, cassettes, and other awesome […]

]]>763Episode 011 – Spencer Keeton Cunninghamhttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-011-spencer-keeton-cunningham/
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:04:17 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=751Spencer Keeton Cunningham is a visual artist. He travels around the world painting outdoor murals and selling work in galleries. He smuggled skateboards into Cuba, and travels to paint in Alaska, Mexico, China, Japan, British Columbia, Canada, and all over the US. We met up in the top floor tower of the Westerfeld house off […]

Spencer Keeton Cunningham is a visual artist. He travels around the world painting outdoor murals and selling work in galleries. He smuggled skateboards into Cuba, and travels to paint in Alaska, Mexico, China, Japan, British Columbia, Canada, and all over the US.

We met up in the top floor tower of the Westerfeld house off of Alamo Square in SF. Its a place with a lot of history, including past residents, Anton LaVey, Kenneth Anger, and from where there have been many UFO sightings.

We chatted past sunset, not bothering to turn on any lights. We talked about dreams, traveling, music, technology, films, nature, and culture.

]]>751Episode 010 – Danilo Parra – Vice Mediahttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-010-danilo-parra-vice/
Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:01:05 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=555Danilo Parra is a director. He makes music videos and shows on vice.com and for the Vice Network. He’s done music videos for A$AP Rocky and was recently nominated for a UKVMA. Cameron and Danny grew up together and have known each other for about fifteen years but hadn’t seen each other in six so they spend some time […]

Danilo Parra is a director. He makes music videos and shows on vice.com and for the Vice Network. He’s done music videos for A$AP Rocky and was recently nominated for a UKVMA.

Cameron and Danny grew up together and have known each other for about fifteen years but hadn’t seen each other in six so they spend some time catching up.

In this episode Cameron and Danilo meet up at the Vice offices in Brooklyn and talk about his moving to New York and going from a Vice intern to having his videos featured on Nowness and being nominated for a awards. They also talk about drugs and his work with his friend Hamilton Morris on the web series, Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia.

Thanks to Danilo. You can see his work online at danilop.com and on his Vimeo account.

]]>555Episode 009 – Jonathan Mann – Song A Dayhttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-009-jonathan-mann-song-a-day/
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:00:25 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=549Jonathan Mann has written and published a song a day for almost seven years. He has performed on and had his songs featured on CNN, Anderson Cooper Live, Apple Keynote, among other places. In this episode, Cameron talks to Jonathan about his unique approach to music. Jonathan asks Cameron about his work. They talk about the ephemeralness […]

Jonathan Mann has written and published a song a day for almost seven years. He has performed on and had his songs featured on CNN, Anderson Cooper Live, Apple Keynote, among other places.

In this episode, Cameron talks to Jonathan about his unique approach to music. Jonathan asks Cameron about his work. They talk about the ephemeralness of making music on the internet, making meaningful work in a devalued marketplace, what Jonathan is going to do for is 3,000th song/day, about CalArts and songwriting.

]]>549Episode 008 – Diana Manfredi – Spaghetto Productionshttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-008-diana-manfredi-spaghetto/
Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:00:15 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=545Diana Manfredi is an Italian-American director. In this episode, Diana talks about her film, Twerkumentary, the empowerment vs objectification of twerking, her fathers artwork, moving to the US from Europe after college, we talk about Fairfax, and why she’s tired of directing music videos. Thanks to Diana. You can see her work online at spaghetto.tv and twerkumentary.com. Thanks as always […]

In this episode, Diana talks about her film, Twerkumentary, the empowerment vs objectification of twerking, her fathers artwork, moving to the US from Europe after college, we talk about Fairfax, and why she’s tired of directing music videos.

]]>545Episode 007 – TJ Cowgill – Actual Pain / King Dudehttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-007-tj-cowgill/
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:00:33 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=533TJ Cowgill is a clothier and musician. He owns Actual Pain and makes music as King Dude. This episode takes place at Different Fur Studios. In this episode, they talk about San Francisco, fraternal organizations, Seattle, touring, technology, and religion. Thanks to TJ. You can find Actual Pain online at actualpain.org and King Dude on bandcamp, through Not Just Religious […]

]]>533Episode 006 – Richard Hart – Push Periodicalhttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-006-richard-hart/
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:01:10 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=518Richard Hart is a skateboard photographer and has his own publication Push Periodical. Cameron and Richard talk about Richard growing up in a a small village in England, how skateboarding brought him to California in the 90’s, working in a print medium in 2015, the skateboard community, and skateboarders in Hollywood. Thanks to Richard. You […]

Richard Hart is a skateboard photographer and has his own publication Push Periodical.

Cameron and Richard talk about Richard growing up in a a small village in England, how skateboarding brought him to California in the 90’s, working in a print medium in 2015, the skateboard community, and skateboarders in Hollywood.

]]>518Episode 005 – Patrick Brown – Different Fur Studioshttp://cameronadair.com/podcast/episode-005-patrick-brown-different-fur-studios/
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:00:33 +0000info@cameronadair.com (Cameron Adair)http://cameronadair.com/?p=512Patrick Brown owns Different Fur Studios in San Francisco. We talked about San Francisco, owning a studio, mixing records, the music industry, the Recording Academy, the Millennial generation, and digital distribution. You can find Patrick on Twitter at @studio_dad. Different Fur Studios is on Twitter at @differentfur and at differentfurstudios.com. This show is on Apple iTunes, Stitcher, and at cameronadair.com. Subscribe, rate, write a review, […]